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When Strother Martin hosted Saturday Night Live on April 19, 1980, he played the strict owner of a language camp for children, parodying his Cool Hand Luke role. He paraphrased his line from the movie as, "What we have here is failure to communicate BILINGUALLY!"
Luke : Wish you'd stop being so good to me, Captain. Captain : Now, I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean sum-bitch.
Strother Martin. Actor: Cool Hand Luke. American character actor who achieved considerable fame in the last decade of his life. A native of Kokomo, Indiana, Strother Martin Jr. was the youngest of three children of Strother Douglas Martin, a machinist, and Ethel Dunlap Martin.
Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he's arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. While the avowed ambition of the captain (Strother Martin) is for each prisoner to "get their mind right," it soon becomes obvious that Luke is not about to kowtow to anybody.
Aug 27, 2013 · Paul Newman as Lucas "Cool Hand Luke" Jackson Strother Martin as Captain The phrase "What we've got here is failure to communicate" is a quotation from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke,...
Among Martin's memorable performances is his portrayal of the warden or "captain" of a state prison camp in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, in which he utters the line, "What we've got here is failure to communicate."
Captain: What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men, you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week -- which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don't like it anymore than you men. Full text and video of movie Cool Hand Luke - A Failure to Communicate.
Nov 12, 2023 · Strother Martin As The Captain. Played by Strother Martin, the Captain is one of the antagonists in Cool Hand Luke. As the prison's overseer, he does everything in his power to maintain order and even tries to psychologically and physically torture Luke to make him conform to the prison's rules.
Cool Hand Luke (1967) Topics. Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Prison, Fugitive, Bet, Hard Boiled Egg. Language. English. Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured.
Jul 10, 2008 · Fifty prisoners, counted daily, are assigned to a work gang under the fierce eyes of the Captain ( Strother Martin) and the never-seen eyes of Boss Godfrey ( Morgan Woodward ), whose reflecting sunglasses get him described as "the man with no eyes." (That he does not speak adds to his stature as a fearsome icon.)
